Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H4291
מְטָא
metamet-aw'
to reach
8 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mᵉṭâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4291is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 6spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4291
to arrive, extend or happen
The King James renders it: come, reach.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
meta is rendered "to reach". It stands 8 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Eight of the uses stand in Daniel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Daniel 4:11The tree grew large and strong; its top reached the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.
- The Greek text spells it six different ways.
The first use
The tree grew large and strong; its top reached the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.
Daniel 4:11יִמְטֵ֣א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eight of the word's eight uses are in Daniel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- it reached2
- and it has reached1
- he reached1
- it arrived1
- it came1
- it has reached1
- they reached1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
6 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יִמְטֵ֣א2
- מְטָ֔ה2
- וּמְטָ֣ת1
- מְּטָ֔א1
- מְט֞וֹ1
- מְטָ֖ת1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3AVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2AVqi3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1AC/Vqp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1AVqp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine plural1AVqp3mp
Daniel
eight uses
The tree grew large and strong; its top reached the sky, and it was visible to the ends of the earth.
- יִמְטֵ֣אyimte'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it reached
The tree you saw that grew large and strong, whose top reached the sky and was visible to all the earth,
- יִמְטֵ֣אyimte'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it reached
you, O king, are that tree! For you have become great and strong; your greatness has grown to reach the sky, and your dominion extends to the ends of the earth.
- וּמְטָ֣תumetatconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and it has reached
This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree that the Most High has issued against my lord the king:
- מְטָ֖תmetatverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has reached
All this happened to King Nebuchadnezzar.
- מְּטָ֔אmeta'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it came
At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
- מְט֞וֹmetoverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they reached
In my vision in the night I continued to watch, and I saw One like the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into His presence.
- מְטָ֔הmetahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he reached
until the Ancient of Days arrived and pronounced judgment in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came for them to possess the kingdom.
- מְטָ֔הmetahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it arrived
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.